In my case, I've had multiple ophthalmologists recommend against getting IOLs until I'm much, much older, as the risk of side affects (specifically retinal detachment) outweighs the benefit I would get from having them.
I still dream of being able to see first thing when I wake up.
I was born with congenital bilateral cataracts and had the lenses in both eyes removed as an infant (a condition called Aphakia). I have been set up with monovision since I was very young -- that basically means I'm intentionally far-sighted in one eye and near-sighted in the other so that I use one eye for reading and the other eye for distance.
I wear hard contact lenses most of the time, but I do have glasses. My glasses prescription is around +21/+23 (I would fit right in hanging out with Milhouse Van Houten or Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth), but I only wear them in emergencies because I get headaches and dizziness after 10/15 minutes of wearing them. I mostly keep 'em for the novelty of showing people just how thick my glasses are. 8)
My eyes do get tired after long screen days, resulting in blurry vision and watery eyes. I also get headaches on a somewhat frequent basis.
If that's useful at all, I'd be happy to chat more.
The cold bottle glasses. You get those because they're cheaper these days. You can get the same prescription on a much thinner lens. I did that for my kid. He has a pretty strong prescription in one eye, but his lens is no thicker than mine.
It adds a lot to the cost of the glasses, though. Easily $75 to just get half of the thickness.
Where? Even thick ones are super expensive here. Over $250 a lens. I'd gladly pay $75 more for a significantly thinner lens. Point me in the right direction please.
I don't have anything meaningful to add other than how bizarre to see this on HN. Laura Splotch, who was interviewed in the article, is a good friend, neighbor, and former coworker. Weird how things intersect sometimes.
This triggered a memory from my early days of learning to code...
When I was in middle school and high school – late '90s and early '00s – I got heavily into forums and message boards. Customizing them was a major part of how I taught myself to code, and me and some friends spent a lot of time building RPG features into them. Shops, battle systems, and lots of other RPG and community features. Every action required a full page reload, as XMLHttpRequest wasn't a widely known thing yet. (I didn't hear of it until maybe '04 or '05, but it looks like it first appeared in '99?)
There were no CC-licensed game asset collections, but there was a site, rpg-icons.com, that had a assets from many games, mostly RPGs. Breath of Fire, Harvest Moon, Final Fantasy, and so many more. I would spend hours looking through that site, searching for the perfect sprite to use for this or that item. It was a lot of fun to use assets from our favorite games to do our own creative thing. Maybe not super legal, per se, but still super fun.
I haven't done game stuff in almost 20 years, but almost my entire career has been web stuff. I'm glad resources like this – CC-licensed game assets – exist for today's kids learning to code.
> XMLHttpRequest wasn't a widely known thing yet. (I didn't hear of it until maybe '04 or '05, but it looks like it first appeared in '99?)
My memory says that it was first implemented in IE 5.5, which was released in 2000. Wikipedia says [0] that it first appeared in IE 5.0 but with a different syntax.
Heh, I'm literally in the middle of optimizing some N+1 query endpoints in a Django application for work, made a bit more tricky because of DRF's serializer.
I think a setting for lazy queries would be a good solution, with it enabled by default to ease the transition. It would be nice to have a couple options, though – allow, warn, and error.
It would also be great to have a way to change the setting on the fly so that, e.g., the Django shell can automatically enable it for those quick debugging sessions.
Heh, I discovered your comment while googling to fix the same. I'm in the same boat as you; it's seriously annoying and distracting. Did you ever find a solution?
Years ago, Facebook maintained a Python SDK for their API. One day, with no warning, Facebook announced they would no longer support it because they didn't have the resources, and the repo was removed from their Github org, which caused a huge headache. IIRC, the community settled around someones fork.
A few months later, Facebook was a major sponsor of PyCon and they set up a recruitment booth. "We'll take your developers, but we won't support your ecosystem." Really rubbed me the wrong way.
not trying to throw sympathy here for Facebook, but the team that owned that Python SDK was probably not at all related to the PyCon recruitment booth. Big organization, at least someone was trying to do the right thing
My main focus this year has been – and continues to be – working ways to ensure the space survives the pandemic.
We started making PPE earlier in the pandemic, which resulted in a lot of donations from the community. This came in clutch, and helped us build awareness of the space locally.
We also have another grant-funded project, in collaboration with several other non-profits, to build a network of low-cost air quality monitors in disadvantaged communities across the San Joaquin Valley.
We were hoping to use the funds from SJVAir to build up the space, get some new equipment, and run some cool events, but so far it's all gone to paying rent on a building we haven't been able to use since March.
I still dream of being able to see first thing when I wake up.